Scott Rigell

Remembering the shopping mall Marine Corps recruiting center where he signed up, and the Reserves center where he drilled from 1978 to 1984, Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Virginia Beach, been worried for a while whether a two decade old standing order banning concealed weapons on military bases made sense at a time when men and women in uniform are targets for terrorist violence. It came home this week, with the deadly attacks on a military recruiting center and a Navy Reserve facility in Chattanooga. "I found myself thinking, we can't go on like this ... we're not just going to sit by a take this," Rigell said. He's worried that because of their uniforms, men and...

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